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Sample Sources

The sources below are those contained in our three curated collections—covering themes of Passover, Gender Roles, and Holocaust Resistance. They represent a fraction of the thousands of sources that will be available when the full site launches in 2024.
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This One’s On Me

1. The lives and times of Oedipus and Elektra began with bloodgrim lust and dark carnality but I was born next to the Neilson’s factory where every piece is different, and that’s how I got my…

Farewell, You Cheerful Folk of France

Farewell, you cheerful folk of France, My brethren’s merry throng, A foolish nostalgia drives me hence, I’ll be back, though, before long. Imagine—I yearn beyond belief For the smell of heather and…
Star of David brooch with the word "Jude" in the center.
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Jude

Cherkassky’s gold Star of David with the word “Jude” in its center was displayed in Collectio Judaica at the Rosenfeld Gallery in 2003. It was the artist’s first major solo exhibition. The theme of…

Human Follies: For Sukkot

Human follies, silver and gold and possessions, Last only shortly on earth, and like flies, they fly away. Wealth flowers like abundant grain, or like a tree’s boughs, It bears recognizable fruit…

Bliss

We shall live in the shade of the graceful doe and, living there, shall be sustained. We shall walk through darkness by her light, with never-ending joy. When she laughs, we will burst into song; when…

Her Eyes

The girl’s eyes are the heavens of love, a robe of light and splendour in which she clothes herself. Even when they are hidden by clouds of tears, lovers, do not be afraid to come near. Do not fear…

Couplets of Joseph the Righteous

“It is only because the Lord was with us,” says the old Israel; in You lies holiness, Israel’s praises. “It is only because the Lord was with us,” You elevated us above other men, You saved us from…

Tourists

So condolence visits is what they’re here for,sitting around at the Holocaust Memorial, putting on a serious faceat the Wailing Wall,laughing behind heavy curtains in hotel rooms.They get themselves…

The Converts

On the holiest day we fast till sundown. I watch the sun stand still as the horizon edges towards it. Four hours to go. The rabbi’s mouth opens and closes and opens. I think: fish and little steaming…

Traveling and Passing

Traveling and returning. In the Dirt paths of her forehead Railroad trains anchor, yellow Carriages locomotive flowers In the fields of liberated Europe Traveling and returning. In the shadows Betw…